Are you a passionate software engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, challenging environment? If being an integral member of a team and contributing to cutting-edge technology is your thing, the Cordite team, part of AWS EC2 Nitro is looking for engineers to help us define and build the future of cloud storage. We are working on an exciting EC2 solution in the storage and backup domain. The team provides a virtualized hardware-accelerated instance storage solution and owns the EC2 storage optimized instances. Our solution is used as the direct instance storage for many instance types offered by EC2 (e.g., I4i, I3en, D3, P5, C6id, C6gd, G5, etc.).
What is Instance Storage?The links below provide some information on Instance Storage and we’d love to tell you more about it !!
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceStorage.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUY-00yFlE4 – around 12:12 into the video
The AWS Nitro System is the underlying platform for our next generation of EC2 instances.
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/
What You’ll Be Doing
As a member of this team, you will work alongside extremely bright engineers, product managers and leaders who obsess about performance, availability, scalability and durability of customer data. You will be developing features in the Instance Storage data plane that solve customers' real world problems. You will be solving technical problems at a large scale, using SOA, distributed systems, and storage technologies. As a member of this team, you will have strong ownership over the design, implementation and operation of a massive scale distributed storage system. The unique accountability of owning EC2 storage optimized instances will provide the opportunity to work with and learn about the large EC2 eco-system. You will have the opportunity to work closely with an agile team that ships often, and see the impact your code has on a wide range of customers from startups to enterprise companies.
What You’ll Bring to the Role
Strong analytical, design and problem solving skills
Excellent leadership skills and the ability to hit the ground running
Excellent time management and follow-through ability while managing multiple priorities
Effective communication and inter-personal skills
Experience in building and operating high performance systems at scale and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs
Deep understanding of software development practices and experience with all phases of development
Thrive in a fast paced environment that encourages and rewards creative design and intelligent risk taking
Experience programming in C, C++ or Python on high performance systems
Experience developing software in Linux environments
Experience with device drivers, firmware management and understanding of IO technologies like NVMe are a big plus
Experience with storage, filesystems, virtualization technologies and on-demand computing
Exposure to software development techniques with large distributed systems involving petabytes of data
Exposure to managing virtualized large scale systems
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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